I was thrilled to see these two books when I opened the package! I’ve been wanting to read No Man Knows My History for years, and I started reading it right away. And then how could you not want a book with the title Sex Cult Nun haha 🙂 Thank you so much! This was such a nice surprise and I’m really looking forward to reading these.
“I was rudderless and raw, and the worst part was that no one wanted to talk about any of it.”
Dancing at the Pity Party by Tyler Feder
Dancing at the Pity Party is, as the subtitle states, “a dead mom graphic memoir.” As someone whose dad died when I was a kid, I related a lot to this book and think it’s one of the best depictions I’ve read of the messy, chaotic, complicated process of grief. Feder’s mother is diagnosed with cancer during her first year away at college, and she dies right when she comes home after finals. The narrative covers their relationship growing up, the illness and death of […]
One of my top books of the year: a nuanced, thoughtful graphic novel portrayal of Joseph Smith’s life
Joseph Smith and the Mormons by Noah Van Sciver
One of my main special interest areas has always been high-control/niche religious groups. In the interest of review transparency, I do not believe in any of the LDS church’s claims and do not come from an LDS background at all, so this is not a review from a believing member. However, this book is not a hack job and I think you could read it as a member and not be too upset. Van Sciver was raised in the LDS Church and as he writes […]
Just Every Trigger Warning Imaginable
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jeanette McCurdy
I am too old to have watched Jeanette McCurdy on Nickelodeon, but I was vaguely aware of her before she started promoting this book. I also follow a lot of eating disorder recovery stuff, so I’d seen her podcast being suggested before this came out and was thus aware that the book was going to deal with her eating disorder a lot. Up front I will say that if you have an eating disorder and/or are in recovery from one, this book is super, super […]
“Is memoir therapy? Or is it vengeance?”
Motherwell by Deborah Orr
I was very sad to see that Deborah Orr died in 2019 of cancer when I was doing some googling after reading this book. It’s always so strange to be in someone’s point of view reading their memoir and picturing them alive, and then realizing that this is the only book they’ll ever write. Cancer really robs the world of so much infinite potential. Motherwell is Orr’s memoir of growing up in the titular steel mill town of Motherwell during the 60s and 70s. I […]
“A part of Sinatra, no matter where he is, is never there.”
Frank Sinatra Has a Cold and Other Essays by Gay Talese
This was a Christmas present from last year due to my interest in Frank Sinatra and other complicated mid-century men with bad tempers. It then sat for a while until I re-entered my interest phase, which only apparently took about a year. The titular essay is extremely well known as one of the main pieces of “New Journalism” and is hugely influential on celebrity profiles to this day. I used to get Esquire for many years and the profiles all sound like this. It was […]
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